Professional debutantes will collide when Gemma Auld meets Ciara McGuirk at PFL Glasgow.
The two will compete in a showcase Flyweight bout on September 28 at the OVO Arena, as the promotion head to Scotland for the first time with a card that will feature extremely well known Scottish faces and the 2024 PFL European Championship Playoffs.
For both, their rise through the amateur ranks was rapid. Auld’s first amateur bout was in June 2023, when she defeated Ellen Egan with a first round submission, before competing two months later and handing Caroline Plumley the same treatment at Holytown Havoc 3.
Activity was key to Auld’s amateur run and just two months after her second win, she was back in action once more. Her grappling prowess was now becoming apparent as she utterly dominated Jess Catleugh over their three round bout at British Fighting Championship 4. Then, in the space of just two weeks, the teacher turned fighter competed again at Goliath Fight Series 5 and claimed her first belt with a unanimous decision win.
Her second amateur belt came at BMF 8 when she stopped Amy Derwanz in the fifth round of their contest. She then added a third belt to the collection when she stopped Camilla Bergstrom in the third round of their Cage Warriors Academy: South East 34 bout.
After a unanimous decision in her amateur debut, Ciara McGuirk is yet to see the scorecards since.
In the space of 6 months, McGuirk picked up another three wins, all by way of strikes. In her fourth and final bout as an amateur, the Irish native picked up her first belt in the shape of the Budo Fighting Championship Flyweight belt.
The athletes represent two gyms that are widely regarded as some of the best in UK and Ireland, with Auld fighting out of Higher Level and McGuirk, Team KF.
